The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-02-10
IN CITY AND COU NTY.
DASHES HERE AND THERE BY OUR
REPORTERS.

ed PARAGRAPHS.
NJ; Monday is St. Valentines day.
Tina new way of calling 1t is Bumm-
fngham."
-asno, 1sylsr," of Danbury, was in the
city Monday.
The Salem Fire Company were o"'
FRIDAY might
Mr. JAMES Mann, Jr., IT Greensboro
was in the city Iass week.
- Monthly examinations were held - 'a'
Gfsdsd School last week.
w. s: Ball, Esq, of Greensboro, is in
this city attending Court.
= Mr.. 1. w. Durham has been On a trip
to Birmingham and Admission.
Communion services were held at the
Centenary M. E. church last Sunday.
Mr.. H. C. Ashcraft has moved his
family to a residence on Cherry street.
Miss Sue Poindexter, of Germanton,
has been visiting Miss Mary Gorrell, of this
city.
- Rev. John McCuiston filled the pulpit
both morning and night at the Aforavian
church.
-Rev. c. H. Mead of New York. will
lecture on temperance in this city on March
II, II and 18th.
Mr.. H. Montague is making prepare
lions to build a new brick store on Main
street. next to Merchants hotel
Work is rapidly progressing DIR.
Hunters new store in Salem, and several
other improvements are going on.
We suppose ove-piping will shortly
go up, judging from the number of beavers
now being brought into requisition.
= The Rev. Cyrus Rankin, of Holly
Springs, Miss, preached an excellent SER
mon Sunday at the Presbyterian church.
We are glad to hear that Mr.. Robert
Belo, who met with such serious accident
two weeks ago, is improving rapidly.
Mr. John Hunt, of Winston, says the
Roxboro Courier, has been in town for sew
eral days, visiting the family of DIR. Fuller.
= And now as Spring time draweth nigh
the small boy bringeth forth his little mar
bles and playeth "hand-span" and "pea-
hittance."
The new Tise building, since being
painted and arranged for business, is one of
the handsomest establishments of which
Winston can boast.
Aliens tea pot was smoking at pow
erful rate the other day, and country in
nocent standing by wanted to know how
in the thunder they bet up that ar big
thing"
If post master J. E. Burch will inform
us at what Office he officiates, or give US
some clew of his whereabouts, we will be
pleased to attend to the matter he brings
before our notice.
A pile of yellow wrappers brought $50
few days ago, and it was not the prettiest
tobacco ever sold here either. There seems
to be general tendency toward the opinion
that tobacco will shortly go up.
The young people of Winston enjoyed
two very pleasant parties last Friday night,
one at the residence of Mr. 1. Leopold, and
one at the residence of DR.. w. L Brown.
Both were well attended and pleasantly
spent.
Mr.. John L. Beard of this city, has in
his possession an old family heirloom in the
way of a walking stick with head made of
a bucks horn. The stick came down to
Mr.. Beard from his great-grand-father, who
was one of the first settlers of Salisbury.
The. Chronicle Bureau has established
headuua rtarS IN a room, oyor NJ u r AIlan,,
store. We congratulate Mr. John L. Beard
on finding atmosphere so decidedly
journalistic, and think if we can get few
more newspaper Offices in the building we'll
have complete monopoly of it.
= The Forsyth Rifemen are seriously
considering the question of attending the
National Drill at Washington in May next.
A finer looking and better drilled Company
cannot be found in the State, and it would
do credit to old North Carolina to be repre-
scented by such a company. We hope the
boys will go.
= Tonight, at Browns Opera House, the
Twin-City Reform Club will render the
temperance play " on the brink and also
comedy entitled "hard cider" The pre-
liminaries have been in progress for some
weeks, and the fact that Dr. Blum is in
charge is sufficient guarantee of the sue
cess of the undertaking.
We clip the following from the War
renton Gazette: " As we predicted, when we
heard of his election, Mr.. H. E. Fries of
Forsyth, makes one of the most efficient
members OF the General Assembly. He was